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Poetry’s global language, blooming through centuries, flowers, and emotions.
The Language of Flowers
Selected by Jane Holloway
$34.57
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2017
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Summary
The Language of Flowers is an unusually wide-ranging anthology exploring the richly symbolic expressiveness of flowers through poems from around the world and across the ages.
The language of flowers is as old as language itself. In the earliest poetry familiar plants were used to represent simple emotions, ideas, or states of mind: love, hope, despair, fidelity, solitude, beauty, mortality. Over time these associations entwined with myth and legend, with religious symbolism, folk and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841598079 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841598070 |
| Author: | Jane Holloway |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 232g |
| Dimensions: | 165mm x 113mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library POCKET POETS |
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